This post is part of a series on the possible impacts of Trump’s election on a variety of social justice issues. Click here to read more. • • • by Ray Michalowski* As the great Yankee’s baseball catcher and American philosopher Yogi Berra once said, “Only a fool would make predictions. Especially about the future.” With that caution in […]
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Richard Aoki’s Troubled World: A Response
by Gregory Shank Seth Rosenfeld’s case documenting Richard Aoki’s role as an FBI informant understandably provoked a strong reaction from those who knew him or had extensively researched his life. In his 70 years, Aoki had developed deep networks among veterans of Asian American and African American struggles, as well as the broader progressive movement […]
Torture, It’s Back in Fashion
by Rebecca Gordon* The 2016 presidential campaign has put torture back on the American agenda. Donald Trump and Ted Cruz are campaigning on promises to bring it back, and even Marco Rubio hinted in that direction. (Of course torture never left the Secure Housing Units of US prisons, where it is hidden in plain sight.) […]
Are You against the Death Penalty? Good. Then Vote against the Death Penalty.
In light of recent controversies among progressives and radicals concerning Prop. 62, which would abolish the death penalty in California and replace it with life without parole, we are hosting two pieces that look at the hard issues surrounding the death penalty and explain the reasons for voting Yes or for voting No. Below is the […]
Pushback on Human Rights in France: The Republic on the Move, but in Reverse Gear
by Rémy HERRERA* For some months now, France has been the scene of a turbulent upheaval. Fierce social conflict has long been a defining feature of the country’s political life. It has been a historical given in a nation constructed, for the most part, after 1789 on the basis of a revolution of universal scope […]
Reentry to Nothing: Urban Survival after Mass Incarceration
by Alessandro De Giorgi* You know, being in prison and not actually knowing how hard it is out here on the streets…. I remember when I got out. I kicked it with my wife for a few hours before I made it to the halfway house. So she took me through my neighborhood, and I […]
Police Abolition or Police Surveillance: The Looming Choice
by Micol Seigel* Speaker after speaker at the Republican National Convention last month railed against democrats’ supposed plans to defund the police. The major spotlight on these denunciations reflects how visible this once-fringe proposal has become. It also highlights the political position defunding occupies today: far, far beyond the pale for conservatives and “centrist” voters. […]
Archive Access, 2009–2005
(Click on any author’s name to download the pdf) 2009–2005 (Vols. 36–32) 2015– | 2014–2010 | 2004–2000 | 1999–1995 | 1994–1990 | 1989–1985 | 1984–1980 | 1979–1974 36:4 (2009) Activist Scholarship: Possibilities and Constraints of Participatory Action Research Julio Cammarota, The Cultural Organizing of Formal Praxis-Based Pedagogies: A Socio-Historical Approach to Participatory Action Research Kysa Nygreen, Critical Dilemmas in PAR: Toward […]